Gloria

The hamster's dead. Yesterday after my shot I came home to wait for Car-girl to pick me up & found her hunched over underneath the water bottle. I checked it -- it was full -- then went to feed her; she toppled over into the basement. I shook the cage some but she wouldn't come out.

I played "Blue Sunday" a dozen times on my keyboard before Car-girl came to take us out to Pizza Hut. When we arrived Trish came out to greet us & I gave her the bad news. That night we called Hope & I talked things over with my old friend. I wish that she was still here. I'd just received a letter from her yesterday, & had planned to respond after I heard from Platinum Studios on "The Chemical Marriage", but went ahead & called with the tragic news of the hamster's death.

Gloria passed away about 8:30 last night. We took her out to the dumpster in a plastic bag so that the cats wouldn't eat her. Saturday we're going to buy a new one. We want a female & will name her Taarna II.